How to manage a volunteer

Treat them like a consultant

Start the relationship with a contract to clarify your expectations.
Help your volunteer learn how to be a consultant. Most generalist marketers are employees, with no consulting experience. They know how to do marketing; they may not know how to do consulting. Structuring the relationship will help them adjust to being a volunteer consultant.

Finish the relationship with a close form. This is the way you “pay” your volunteer. It contains your results and your volunteer needs this information for their resume, to build their career. Every marketer needs a resume that contains concrete accomplishments but in a large corporation it is hard to measure the impact that one employee makes.

Why do donors donate?

Marketing: NONprofit vs FORprofit

Management Advisory Services is a consulting service that gives pro bono advice to Toronto non-profits since 1993.
With 50+ Volunteer Consultants in governance, strategy, HR, marketing and fundraising, MAS is a charity that is funded by donations from satisfied clients.
Our Volunteer Consultants are professionals who want to give back using the skills we learned in our careers. MAS mission is to build capacity in the non profit sector.
Contact: www.masadvise.org
416-963-5792